Complete the "Media Blitz" mission on hard difficulty in less than 20 minutes.

Objectives

Main Objective | Destroy Dominion during surprise attack

Main Objective | Access broadcast tower 1

Main Objective | Access broadcast tower 3

Main Objective | Access broadcast tower 2

Mission Walkthrough

As the mission starts, you have control of Odin, which is planted in the center of the city. There's no particular rush, but you want to open fire on the enemies surrounding you. We suggest ordering a barrage on the units behind Odin and then standing ground to kill off the rest that come at you. A countdown timer appears on the screen, showing the shrinking window for your surprise attack. Note the three clusters of enemies on your radar—they're three different Dominion bases and now is your chance to weaken them before the real mission starts. Move between the bases and wipe out not only the enemies but also the barracks and factories that generate new enemies. Odin is slow so you likely won't make a ton of progress, but anything you do will help.

When the timer runs down, Odin will be moved to your new base in the southwest corner of the map. Immediately put your SCVs to work gathering goods, and make special efforts to boost your vespene supplies—you'll be building units that devour vespene. There's no particular rush to act, though every second you waste is another second for the opposition to build up its defenses. We suggest building a bunker on the northeast border of your base and manning it with the supplied Marines. Also, order an SCV to repair Odin while you're waiting around.

Hang around a bit and before long you'll get a freebie Thor unit. Thors look like Odin but they're small, and you can now build them from your factory. You can get through this mission by building, exclusively, SCVs and Thors and we suggest doing just that. Leave one Thor to play defense near your bunker, but send all the rest on the conquest mission with Odin. When you've got three or four Thors in your crew, head northwest from your base.

Wipe out any attack units you run into and then destroy any barracks or factories that could generate more units. You want to push to the enemy base in the northwest corner of the map (it's marked with the number "1"). When you've taken out all of the units and factories in the area, stand one of your units in the green circle near the broadcast tower to gradually capture the tower.

A counter on the upper-right corner of the screen measures your capture progress, and while it goes up you'll be attacked by new batches of enemies that try to stop you. Try to set up a perimeter and use a throwaway unit like an SCV to capture the point behind the defense of your Thors. Keep in mind Odin's barrage attack and your Thors' cannon shots. When the area is captured, head back to base to let your SCVs heal you up.

Keep augmenting your Thor supply. If you're up for a bit of a distraction, take your Thor posse and check out the very southeast corner of the map, directly south of the next enemy base. There's a lone building that's labeled "Korhal civilians" but appears red, like an enemy holdout. Use the attack command to blow the building up and you'll reveal secret documents. Collect them to unlock a secret mission that you can access from the star map later. After grabbing that, head for the base marked with the number "3" to capture a second broadcast tower.

The operation is basically the same as before, but you'll find this tower more heavily defended. Moreover, moving around a gaggle of Thors through the narrow paths can create choke points behind which your units will get stuck and won't be able to help in fighting. Try to move all of your units through choke points before stopping to attack. You'll take some fire on the way in, but it'll help spread out the damage and ensure that no one Thor gets pounded too hard. Again, look for reasons to use the Odin's barrage to take out large groupings of enemy units and buildings to gain access to the broadcast tower.

Capturing the third broadcast tower, the one marked "2" at the northeast corner of the map, shouldn't give you any more trouble than the others unless you've been hemorrhaging Thor units. You'll likely begin running low on minerals and vespene gas back at base so keep your Thors healthy. Once you've captured the third broadcast tower, the mission ends.